[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • August 4, 2008
    An article by Megan Murphy:

    ``Biotechnology companies that have staked lucrative claims to parts of the human genetic sequence were on Thursday dealt a blow by the High Court in a decision that may set a higher threshold for intellectual property protection.

    ``In the first UK case to examine how `bioinformatics' – the use of powerful computer programmes to work out the relationship between the human genome and the design of new drugs – affects patentability, the court revoked a patent held by Human Genome Sciences on a disease-linked protein known as `neutrokine-alpha.'''

    Full story:
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c2649894-5f54-11dd-91c0-000077b07658.html

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